Venom Rising - Limited Edition 1 of 5 Photograph

I am a fine art and portrait photographer based in the UK. My work is the celebration of people: their dignity, their beauty, their inner self, their achievements. In short their humanity. I am a self-taught photographer, having grown up with the medium since I was a child. My passion for it remained with me whilst I worked in a variety of museums and art galleries around the country. Eventually I had to leave the stability of that work to follow this passion of mine. I learnt my craft when film was the only medium and I still enjoy using 35mm and medium format film. I have a collection of vintage lenses, each with their own characteristics, that I use on both film and digital camera bodies. These lenses really are my palette! And the word palette is key here, I am inspired more by painters than photographers, particularly those of the 19th and early 20th centuries.